r/memes • u/Yolo065 • 1d ago

Leave them alone🤬🤬🤬

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u/ElmsVidsOff 22h ago

Anytime who has been a gaming adult for any length of time understands that, overall, gaming is cheaper than the past.

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u/smallfried 8h ago

PC games are so extremely cheap nowadays, that most gamers have too many games.

The meme during a steam sale is always that everyone's backlog is overflowing but they still buy new games because they're so cheap.

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u/ElmsVidsOff 2h ago

Exactly. People act as if "Retail price at launch for major AAA flagship game" is the ONLY price. That's absurd.

That *USED* to the case. Just look at any catalog or whatever from the 80s and early 90s and you'll see that virtually all games were 35-70 dollars. Anything other than that was piracy. Of course, this was because the market was in its infancy.

"Just wait 6 months or a year and it'll be at least 50% off" is the norm these days for *MOST* games. In the past that was incomprehensible.

Math isn't opinion-based. OVERALL... as a hobby... gaming has never been cheaper.